At the movies: Nurse 3D.

While it didn't make it out in 2012 (which makes the mind boggle at what all went on behind the scenes in its making and post-production), Nurse 3D is now something most can experience.

At the movies: Ms. 45.

A short piece for the Scene on the occasion of Ms. 45's theatrical rerelease.

At the movies: The Skin I Live In (La Piel que Habito).

Kinky Pedro is back! Yay!

Spend some time experiencing some new flesh with my thoughts on The Skin I Live In...

At the movies: Hanna.

So I'm totally digging on the new Joe Wright film. You could take this exact script and make it as a big dumb exploding action blockbuster, and instead, he takes it and makes it work the arthouse runway like a classic art thriller. Love it.

So I read this: River of Gods by Ian McDonald.

Imagining India circa 2047, this is a rather remarkable SF novel. It has an expansive but not diluted collection of main characters, its technology is advanced but comprehensible, and its knowledge of human behavior is remarkably consistent with who we are and where we most likely are headed to.

There's a playful cleverness to McDonald's work, and his embrace of the complex sociopolitical forces at work in contemporary (and alternate future-contemporary) India is impressive. I'd love to see this in a cinematic context, but it would be hard to find a happy synthesis that can make allowancwes for some of the extremely nonvisual plot points. But this book is an utter delight, and I recommend it to anyone looking for an evocative SF experience.